| Intro | American writer |
| Is |
Writer Novelist Lawyer |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Law Literature |
| Gender | female |
Julie Cope Hilden is a novelist and lawyer. She grew up in Hawaii and New Jersey and now lives in Los Angeles. She attended Harvard College and Yale Law School and has a Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University.
Biography
Upon graduating from law school, she clerked for then-Chief Judge Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and for Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She has been admitted to the New York and District of Columbia bars. She was a litigation associate at the law firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., from 1996 to 1999. She worked on First Amendment, criminal defense, appellate cases, and other issues. As a legal writer her commentaries can be found on her webpage at Justia’s Verdict. She has been a legal commentator on Good Morning America, Court TV, CNN, and NPR, and local television and radio stations. She has lived for several years with former journalist Stephen Glass, fired in 1998 from The New Republic for confabulating articles.